The BBC is reporting that the July 5 events in Urumqi were carried over into today, July 6, in the city of Kashgar.
The unrest spread to a second city on Monday, with police breaking up fresh protests in Kashgar, dispersing more than 200 “rioters” at its main mosque.
The article goes on to state that
About 200 people “trying to gather” at the Id Kah mosque in the centre of Kashgar, on the ancient Silk Road, were dispersed by police early on Monday evening, Xinhua said.
Police also revealed they had information about efforts to organise unrest in the city of Aksu and the Yili prefecture, Xinhua added. Yili is a border region that was hit by ethnic unrest in the late 1990s.
The New York Times confirms this.
Protests spread Monday to the heavily guarded oasis town of Kashgar, on China’s remote western border, as 200 to 300 people chanting “God is great” and “Release the people” confronted riot police officers about 5:30 p.m. in front of the city’s yellow-walled Id Kah Mosque, the largest mosque in China. They quickly dispersed when officers began arresting people, one resident said.
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Thanks for keeping us up to date at this crazy time.
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